Chat It's Fate

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In the UK, we’ve got the Beast of Bodmin, Black Shucks and the Loch Ness monster – just a few of the weird and wonderful entities that are the stuff of British folklore and fairy tales. Other countries have their own crazy creatures – and they’re eve

The Caravan

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In the 1970s, when the bazaars first came to Uttarakhand’s Munsyari village, people began to purchase grain instead of growing it. Barley, one of the crops native to the region, slowly diminished in quantity and purpose. Rekha Rautela, who wrote abou

Poets & Writers

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THE WRITERS I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF TALKING WITH these days have one thing in common: They are all incredibly busy. I believe the most precious gift one could offer a creative person is time: unscheduled, unencumbered, unhurried time. But when I hear

All About History

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Marcellus Sidetes, a physician born around the end of the 1st century CE in Asia Minor, wrote a medical poem that spanned 42 books. Nearly the entire corpus was lost, with only two fragments surviving. One fragment, preserved by Aetius of Amida, is c

ImagineFX

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LOCATION: England MEDIA: Photoshop WEB: www.artstation.com/alexandracurte “I’ve been painting my whole life and the fantasy genre is my favourite,” says Alexandra. “I’ve always loved fairy tales and all things magic and folklore, which can be found i

Poets & Writers

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Feedback from readers Kevin Larimer’s “Maybe This Is Enough for Now” (July/August 2020), calmed the ruthless self-critic who kept nagging me for not using quarantine time to write. After reading the Editor’s Note, I recalled the 2019 Kauai Writers Co

Chat It's Fate

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In Native American mythology and folklore, there are many stories about UFOs, gods and aliens. The Hopi tribe believe their ancestors came from the Pleiades, or Chuhukon, as they call it. Star Beings or Star People are referred to in Native American

NPR

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Bruce Handy's new book takes an emotional, intuitive look at the world of children's books, from Goodnight Moon to Charlotte's Web, which he calls "a mastery novel of ideas" about life and death.

Total Girl

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Could witches actually exist? Are fairy tales not tales at all but relics of a the not-too-distant past? These questions and more are on Roxy’s mind ever since she moved into the Soup Ministry’s servant quarters with her sister Gretel. The Soup Minis

All About History

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A common trope in fairy and folk tales is magical protection. This can take the form of an enchanted object, such as a hero’s shield, or it can take the form of a space or place, like the mythical Isle of Avalon in Arthurian myth, sheltered from the

Empire Australasia

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As commander of the fairy law enforcement unit Lower Elements Police (also known, genuinely, as ‘LEPrecon’) in this Disney fantasy, Dame Judi Dench is a tough cookie. Clap your hands if you believe in justice! Sure, this gang of motorcyclists are le

Wanderlust

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Babies conceived under the lights will be lucky The Chinese and Japanese believe children conceived under the lights will be blessed with good fortune – and good looks. The lights ease the pain of childbirth …according to Icelandic folklore, th

Psychologies

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I was thrilled to see that you opened The Fix pages of the April issue with a paragraph about fierce mythological women. It is fabulous to see strong women celebrated in mythology, when in our culture we typically read fairy tales in which women and

Total Film

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How would you describe Tristan? Eccentric? You’re correct! It’s a very eccentric and solitary character and in a children’s film, villainy and antagonism are interesting forces to play with. I’ve been thinking that as a genre, children’s literature a

Pretoria News Weekend

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MORE than 250 candidates are in the running for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The list includes some of the world’s foremost creators of literature for children and young people, as well as reading promoters. South Africa is represented among t

Literary Hub

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For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began.

Literary Hub

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Aaron Mahnke—the creator, writer, and voice of Lore—is having a busy October. The podcast at the centre of that buzz has slowly become a juggernaut, with some 6 million bi-monthly listeners, a brand-new Amazon series from the executive producer of Th

Writing Magazine

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The Historical Writers’ Association Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition is inviting entries. The competition is for original, unpublished historical fiction in any genre, up to 3,500 words. All stories must be set at least 35 years in the past. T

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

Writing Magazine

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AM Ink is a US small press which publishes biographies, children’s books, novels and short story collections. The editorial team also publish anthologies and have two imprints, Dark Ink, which publishes ‘an elite line of horror themed books’ of which

Woman

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As I turn the pages of the book, I love the expressions of my three sons, eight, six and four – lost in the magic of the tale. After years of missing out on bedtime stories, I relish this. What makes it even more special is that this book was written

New Zealand Listener

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Whenever I want a laugh and a lesson on great fiction, I re-read Martin Amis’ best novel, The Information (Penguin). It’s about a 40-year-old writer who tries to wreck the life of a more successful writer friend. The prose is superb: Amis’ high style

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She used to be a lawyer but was always writing stories in her spare time, and published her first book almost 20 years ago. She lives in Auckland and is a prolific writer of paranormal romance, sci-fi a

Total Film

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A companion/sequel to 2017’s The Art And Soul Of… this reveals more about unused ideas, from Luv’s original fate to a canopy covering all of Vegas. Aside from a section on dystopian couture (this season’s theme is ‘urban snow trash’), the focus is lo

Literary Hub

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The American Writers Museum, which opened yesterday in downtown Chicago, is decidedly not a library. While there is a Readers Hall filled with comfy couches and a selection of popular works to browse, this first and only museum dedicated to celebrati

Writing Magazine

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‘We (Anne Forrest and Judy Price), both left school at fifteen with little opportunity for further education until decades later when Judith studied for a BA, and Anne for a Masters, in English Literature with Creative Writing at Wales’ Bangor Univer

Chat It's Fate

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AScottish psychic snapped a photo of a ‘girl ghost’ at a castle where she’d smelled ‘rotting meat.’ 23-year old Bethany McPherson was visiting Lennox Castle in Scotland when she had the experience. She told the Daily Record that, during the trip, s

New American Paintings

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Chat It's Fate

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Remember that time you made a mistake you had to hide from your other half, or told someone a secret they blurted out to the wrong person? Well, that was trickster energy at work! Represented in folklore by a variety of gods and spiritual beings, tri